Greek investors set to construction ship building plant in Nigeria – Presidency

Edobor Iyamu, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Niger Delta Affairs, says investors from Greece will set up a ship-building outfit in Nigeria, especially in Niger Delta.

Iyamu made this known to State House Correspondents shortly after a meeting with a delegation of Theo-Man Limited, a Greek firm, on Thursday in Abuja, and said that the company would also train ex-agitators in fishing.

He said that the move by the investors was in tandem with Federal Government’s new vision of a forthright partnership of the Federal Government, state governments, private sector and local communities.

“We have a group of investors from Greece. They have come in to do a number of things in the Niger Delta region, to train a good number of the ex-agitators, to give them skills in fishing and ship-building and other benefits that will come with them.

“They partnered the Presidential Amnesty Office and the whole idea is to set up a ship-building outfit where they will be training a lot of ex-agitators in ship-building and fishing.

“This company went through the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) focus laboratory and they were rated first-star, which meant that they did very well in their rating.

“When investors begin to come to a country, it means they found the economy of that country attractive.

“It is very positive for the country that we have investors coming in to show that they believe in what this administration is doing.

“They are comfortable with the level of peace and calm in the region which has been on for a very long time,” he said.